Past Can We Talk?™ speakers
Can We Talk?(tm) Third National Issues Forum invited highly esteemed, nationally renowned speakers with outstanding diversity credentials, including:

  Valerie Batts, Ph.D., Executive Director and Co-Founder of VISIONS, Inc. Baltimore MD. 

Juana Bordas, President of Mestiza Leadership Services and Founding President/CEO of the National Hispana Leadership Institute. Denver, CO. 

  Kim Calero, President Successful Business Strategies Group, LLC. Hackensack, NJ.  

  Mary Anne Gale, Vice President-Manufacturing for The Procter & Gamble Company. Cincinnati, OH. 

 Roberta Gutman, Vice President and Director of Global Diversity at Motorola in Schaumburg, IL. 

 Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Ph.D., Professor of History, Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America at the University of Colorado. Denver, CO.  

Maria L. Johnson, Vice-President for Diversity at Fannie Mae. Washington, DC. 

Diane Jordan, Vice President, Buchacres. Cincinnati, OH. 

Jacqueline A. Kinard, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Cincinnati, OH. 

Kay Napier is currently Vice President of the Procter & Gamble North America Pharmaceutical business. 

  Edith Parham Melton, Vice President-eBusiness Transformation, Lucent Technologies, Enterprise Networks Group, Basking Ridge, NJ. 

Patricia Pope is president of Pope & Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm in Cincinnati, Ohio.

  Elba Montalvo, Executive Director of Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. New York, NY. 

Valerie Morris co-anchors CNNfn's Market Coverage, providing play-by-play coverage of the day's business headlines and breaking news that may affect viewers' investing decisions. New York, NY. 

Gloria Rodriguez-Milord, MSW, Coordinator of Beech Acres Therapeutic Foster Care, Cincinnati, OH. 

 Midge Wilson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. 

Message from

LINDA BATES PARKER
President & Founder
Black Career Women


Greetings:

On behalf of Black Career Women and the talented, diverse group of women who comprise the Can We Talk?™ National Issues Forum planning committee, I invite and encourage you to mark your calendars now and plan to attend what will be the most important career forum for women offered next year (2002).

As we begin the 2nd year of a new century, there is nothing more compelling than the drastic changes in the workforce driven (sometimes unconsciously) by the growing presence of women and multiethnic workers. Yet these groups have been unable to truly leverage their collective presence, despite all of the diversity initiatives undertaken in the 90's.

Can We Talk?™ boldly addresses the issues that divide women in the workforce and insists on finding solutions. An exceptional group of knowledgeable speakers will challenge, inform and inspire all women participants to more assertively seek avenues for understanding, collaboration and empowerment, despite and/ or with our unique attributes.

This is a call for career-concerned African, Asian, Latina, Native and European American women to join us for this important forum. Our collective empowerment and advancement are essential to our families, the workplace, our communities and our world.

We need you to be there, whether you are in the public or private sector, at the bottom or the top of the organizational hierarchy, whether you understand the issues or not. Join us for the entire forum, for one day, or minimally at lunch. Encourage your friends and colleagues to come as well. We welcome men to join us at the luncheon sessions on either or both days. No matter who you are, plan to come. Plan to be involved. Expect be be challenged, empowered, and inspired!

BCW Can We Talk?™ Past SPONSORS